Includ-ed, red europea de educación inclusiva

Summary

Association RENINCO Romania: The National Network for Information and Cooperation to Support Community Integration.

Asociatia RENINCO Romania is a national non-profit organization composed of active NGOs and other organizations (including parent organizations of persons with disabilities), various professionals and parents active in promoting community involvement responding to the special educational needs of children and youngsters, derived from a disability or other conditions.

General aim/mission of RENINCO: to support and encourage community integration and the inclusion of children and youngsters with special educational needs, derived from disabilities or other conditions, through educational and social measures.

RENINCO is one of the leading NGOs in Romania fighting for the educational and social inclusion of all children and youngsters. RENINCO has several members that work with Romanian universities from Bucharest, Cluj, Iasi, Sibiu, Constanta and that promote inclusive education.

RENINCO has had a solid cooperation with international and European organizations (UNICEF, UNESCO, European Disability Forum), with national ministries (National Education, Labour and Social Protection), national organizations of people with disabilities, universities and research institutions, educational authorities as well as schools.

RENINCO Network had comprised over the last 15 years over 50 active NGOs and 500 professionals and parents.

Target

Professionals in the field of education and parents, children and youngsters with special educational needs (derived from a disability or from other conditions), their families, authorities’ representatives and policy makers.

Activities

Training courses

• - for teachers in mainstream schools, on integrated and inclusive education for children with special needs (600 teachers all over Romania)
• - for itinerant/support teachers from all counties (200 people)
• - for training the trainers for staff working in residential institutions for children with disabilities (100 people)
• - for parents of children with disabilities (100 persons)
• - for educational managers such as school directors and inspectors (200 people)
• - for the professionals involved in the assessment of children with disabilities (100 persons)
• - for teachers in special schools (100 teachers)
• - for inspectors and mangers in preschool and primary education (100 people)
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Action-research and studies

• - Assessment/expertise for children with disabilities (2000)
• - Developing instruments for educational assessment of children with disabilities (2001, published in 2002)
• - Developing a curriculum for children with severe and profound disabilities (2001 - 2002)
• - Situation Analysis of the Integration Process for Children with Disabilities in Ordinary Schools and the Need for Support  (Oct. 2001 – Jan. 2002)
• - Developing a Guide for the assessment of the children with disabilities (2003)
• - Early identification and intervention on children with disabilities (2003)
• - Adolescents with disabilities, their needs and rights (2004)
• - The activity of the support/itinerant teachers in Romania – study in 11 counties and Bucharest (2005-2006)
• - The situation of children with autism in Romania (2006)
• - Piloting an OECD instrument for data collection in schools regarding SEN pupils (2007)
• - Inclusive education in primary schools (2012)
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Main publications

• - Integrated education for children with disabilities, UNICEF & RENINCO, 1998
• - RENINCO White Book, RENINCO & UNICEF, 1999 (translated into Russian in 2007)
• - Teaching Guide for Children with Special Educational Needs, RENINCO & UNICEF, 2000
• - Let’s communicate with pleasure, UNICEF and RENINCO, 2002
• - Set of instruments and tests for the educational assessment of children with disabilities, UNICEF and RENINCO, 2003
• - Guide for itinerant/support teachers, UNICEF, MEC & RENINCO, 2005
• - Steps towards inclusive education in Romania, UNICEF, MEC & RENINCO, 2008
• - The premises for inclusive education in the kindergartens, UNICEF, MECTS & RENINCO, 2010
• - The educational inclusion of children with special needs, UNICEF, MECTS & RENINCO, 2010
• - Models and forms of educational support in inclusive settings, French Embassy in Bucharest and RENINCO, 2011
• - Inclusive education in the kindergarten. Dimensions, challenges and solutions, UNICEF & RENINCO,  2012
• - Promoting inclusive education in the primary school. Guide for teachers, parents and educational managers, UNICEF & RENINCO, 2013